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Living Dance 2016... United in dance

Tuesday, 21 June 2016, 12:18 Last update: about 9 years ago

Living Dance was set up in 2008 and organises dance courses for students from all dance schools. Living Dance aims to bring together dancers from different schools and backgrounds to collaborate and...

An inspirational life

Monday, 20 June 2016, 14:24 Last update: about 9 years ago Noel Grima

The author is a member of the Missionary Society of St Paul, which was established by Mgr Joseph de Piro in 1910. But this book is not a hagiography of Mgr de Piro or a biography - books...

‘Inħobbok!’

Monday, 20 June 2016, 14:23 Last update: about 9 years ago

 "A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world," the English novelist Agatha Christie once said. But what of a child's love for the mother? And what happens when the love...

Shadows in Penumbra

Monday, 20 June 2016, 14:22 Last update: about 9 years ago

Vincent Vella Shadows in Penumbra is Lillian Sciberras' latest publication. Better known for her poetry (Kessidra: Versi taż-Żmien Maħrub) and short stories (Happenstance: Tales of...

Not necessarily so…

Monday, 20 June 2016, 14:21 Last update: about 9 years ago

Philip Farrugia Randon   I have known Alex Mizzi and his father Lawrence for many years but I never knew Alex was also interested in writing like his well-known father. So I was...

Boundary-busting country from Robert Ellis

Sunday, 19 June 2016, 16:53 Last update: about 9 years ago

Texas singer-songwriter Robert Ellis doesn't test the boundaries of country music so much as bowl them over, like a lovesick ex-convict fueled by a 12-pack driving his pickup truck into a row of...

Alan Furst's 'A Hero of France' lacks intensity

Sunday, 19 June 2016, 15:44 Last update: about 9 years ago

In Alan Furst's new novel, "A Hero of France," the setting is German-occupied France in 1941. The proud tricolor nation had fallen to the Nazi invasion the previous year and a fledgling resistance had...

The groove's still the thing for Paul Simon

Saturday, 18 June 2016, 16:51 Last update: about 9 years ago

No '60s folkie has written more great music for dancing than Paul Simon, and at 74 he still wants us to feel the beat. "Stranger to Stranger" showcases Rhymin' Paul's polyrhythms in new, exotic...

Author challenges outlook on dating in 'Available'

Saturday, 18 June 2016, 15:42 Last update: about 9 years ago

Matteson Perry is a screenwriter and host of the monthly Moth StorySLAM in Los Angeles. Perry had his heart crushed by the woman he thought he was going to marry, and he coped with the devastation by...

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